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THE PRIORY. 27 Martyr, partly depending upon the same, on the other part," concerning the celebration of divine service, and the administration of the sacraments to the said inhabitants in the said chapel, by a fit priest. And then the Bishop, with the laudable anxiety of a good pastor for his flock, declares that, M with the consent and assent of the aforesaid Prior and Convent, and also of John Shere, John Richard, John Grenow, keepers of the images or goods in the store of the Chapel of St. Thomas-the-Martyr aforesaid, John Mayow, Stephen Gary, Robert Coke, Nicholas Helier, and other inhabitants at the aforesaid Chapel, being the major part of those who had occasioned the contention, volun- tarily submitting," he ordains as follows : First, that the aforesaid Prior and Convent shall, at their own cost, find a fit priest, regular or secular, who shall celebrate, for the aforesaid inhabitants, all divine service in the aforesaid Chapel of St. Thomas-the-Martyr on every Sunday, and on other usual feast days, in the same manner as other parishioners have, and shall administer the sacraments to them in urgent necessity: Also, that the aforesaid inhabitants shall yearly, at the feast of the Nativity of our Lord, come to the Conventual Church of the aforesaid Prior, to hear their matins there, and not in the said Chapel : Also, that the aforesaid inhabitants near the aforesaid Chapel shall, at their own proper cost, find, repair, and maintain all books, vestments, and other ornaments necessary for divine service : Also, that the religious men, the Prior and Convent, shall, at their expense, find for the said inhabitants wine and bread necessary for the consecration and celebration of masses, and consecrated wax, and holy oil for use at the baptismal font, and the pix for the Host, with sacramental wine for the Conventual Church of the said Priory : Also, that the aforesaid inhabitants of the said Chapel shall, at their expense, build, repair, and maintain the walls, windows, and roof of the said Chapel, also the fence or ditch of the cemetery of such Chapel : Also, that two of the principal of the imagekeepers or guardians of the said Chapel of St. Thomas-the-Martyr, or one of them, shall now and in future offer yearly, in token of subjection and recognition of the Mother Church, one wax [candle] of one pound, at the feast of St.